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  🌐 Distributing knowledge for equity — An evolving concept and a call for action Blog post from @OpenBookPublish https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/distributing-knowledge-for-equity-an-evolving-concept-and-a-call-for-action/

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  🌐 National Open Science Festival 2026 DOAJ Managing Editor and Ambassador for Türkiye, @Ramazan Turgut, will be attending this year’s event which brings together the open science community 📆 14 October 📍 TU Delft, the Netherlands Program details: https://opensciencefestival.nl/

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  💎In this post from the German Service Centre Diamond Open Access (SeDOA), Marcel Wrzesinski, Joanna Ball and Margo Bargheer summarise a recent workshop held at LIBER 2026 #DiamondOA #SeDOA ✍ https://diamond-open-access.de/equitable-publishing-through-the-doas-perspectives-from-research-libraries/

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  🌐In Part 1 of this interview with #DOAJ Jan Erik Frantsvåg asserts that universities should invest in community-owned publishing infrastructure rather than relying heavily on commercial publishers and APCs @petersuber @MuninConf 🎙️ https://blog.doaj.org/2026/10/12/paradise-lost-knowledge-regained-jan-erik-frantsvag-on-reclaiming-open-access-part-1/

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  💡 You asked. We answered Recently, we invited our community to “Ask Us Anything” 🤔 You asked: How do I become a volunteer or Ambassador for DOAJ? 💬 We Answered: We put all calls out for volunteers ambassadors and vacanices on our blog. Subscribe to the blog to get all the latest news https://blog.doaj.org/

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  Join DOAJ and DORA for an interactive community consultation (across two regions) 📅October 27 🌏 For the Asia Pacific region: Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OBWuIi5ORYCIv2b5gA789g 🌎 For the Americas, Africa and Europe region Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IRcmfyL4QfWTE0YRdpA18Q

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  📍 #OAWeek2026 #OAWeek DOAJ directly supports the goals of this year’s theme by increasing the visibility and accessibility of quality #OA journals, promoting a diverse and equitable scholarly ecosystem, and providing a trusted, non-profit infrastructure that ensures knowledge remains a public good

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  🌐 Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine 2026 DOAJ Managing Director @joannaball.bsky.social will be presenting - Building Trust in Open Science: How Quality Journals Strengthen National Research Ecosystems 📅 21-22 October Details: https://nauka.gov.ua/en/opportunities/programme-published-for-the-international-conference-open-science-and-innovation-in-ukraine-2026/

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  📣DOAJ is pleased to announce a Memorandum of Understanding with the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine (SSTL) as a national ambassador institution Details: https://blog.doaj.org/2026/10/19/from-partnership-to-policy-how-doaj-and-ukraine-are-strengthening-open-access-publishing/

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  📍 International Open Access Week 2026 The "Cost of Knowledge" should not be a barrier to access 🌍 Diamond open access presents as a sustainable, equitable solution for our research ecosystem. We are proud to support journals that remove paywalls #OAWeek2026 https://blog.doaj.org/tag/diamond-open-access/

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  💡 Co-Creating Responsible Research Assessment: Informing DORA’s New Guide 🌏 For the Asia Pacific region 📅 October 27 🎤 Host: Rasoul Zavaraqi DORA Steering Committee Representative for Asia & #DOAJ Advisory Board Registration https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OBWuIi5ORYCIv2b5gA789g

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  📍#OAWeek2026 Accurate metadata 🟰 Discoverability 🟰 Open knowledge 🔓 DOAJ is a non-profit, open-metadata resource When #metadata is the foundation of open research, we reduce the cost of knowledge making sure high-quality journals are findable https://blog.doaj.org/category/metadata/

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  💡 Co-Creating Responsible Research Assessment: Informing DORA’s New Guide 🌎For the Americas, Africa and Europe region 📅 October 27 🎤 Host: Monica Weston Registration https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IRcmfyL4QfWTE0YRdpA18Q

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  📍 International #OAWeek2026 The cost of knowledge is not just financial; it’s about inclusion and equity. DOAJ Ambassadors are continuing the conversation on how to build a truly inclusive research ecosystem 🎉 Celebrating 10 Years of the DOAJ Ambassador Programme https://blog.doaj.org/2026/06/08/celebrating-10-years-of-the-doaj-ambassador-programme/

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  📍 #OAWeek2026 🧡 We acknowledge the global community of libraries, researchers, editors, publishers, volunteers, and open infrastructure providers whose shared commitment sustains non-profit services such as DOAJ 🧡 Their collective work keeps scholarly knowledge open, discoverable, and accessible

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  🌐 Vacancy – Head of Editorial Join DOAJ as our Head of Editorial and help lead the development of our editorial function #DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam #editorial 📅 Closing date: 12:00 UTC, 9th of November ▶️ All details about the role and expectations: https://blog.doaj.org/2026/10/26/vacancy-head-of-editorial-2/

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  🌐 2026 Charleston Conference DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O'Connell is presenting at a stopwatch session (November 4): Beyond Bots vs. Humans 📅 2-6 November 📍 Charleston, SC, United States Details: https://www.charleston-hub.com/the-charleston-conference/welcome/2026-preliminary-agenda/

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  🏷️Introducing the Publication Facts Label: Another tool in your research integrity toolkit 🧰 In this guest blog post, open research consultant Alice Medows introduces the Publication Facts Label (PFL) by the @PublicKnowledgeProject 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/

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  🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign IFLA's Claire McGuire and active involvement in the dissemination of climate research #libraries #ClimateReseach 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/doaj-sustains-the-open-climate-campaigns-legacy-with-new-tagging/

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  📣 #DOAJ Call for volunteers We are now recruiting volunteers who ideally have a scholarly communications background, preferably in Library Sciences, and preferably based in Asia #OpenAccess #BestPractice #volunteers #ScholarlyComms See our latest blog for details 👇 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/15/call-for-volunteers/

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  It's Friday, and it's time for #DOAJ in numbers: We index 21,315 #openaccess #journals from 136 countries and in 89 languages. 13,701 of those journals don't charge *any fees at all*. We index 10,762,762 article records. We are the most inclusive and diverse index of quality-controlled #OA journals in the world. https://doaj.org/ #scholcomm #DiamondOA

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  DOAJ Ambassador for West Africa Oluchi Okere is presenting at the WACREN 2026 Conference. The theme for the 2026 annual conference is: 'Connected Futures: Advancing Africa's Digital Sovereignty Through Open Collaboration' #WACREN2026 @WACREN 🗓️ 23-27 March 📌 Banjul, The Gambia Details: https://wacren2026.wacren.net/

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  Do you work with #OpenAccess #journals? Are you setting up a new journal? Are you training a team? 🧰 The OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new and established #OA journals to navigate the rapidly changing scholarly publishing landscape #OASPA #DOAJ https://oajournals-toolkit.org

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  RE: https://masto.ai/@DOAJ/116174886526452839 ⏰ Still time to complete this survey As part of our collaboration with the German Research Foundation (DFG) we want to understand challenges for no fee journals from Germany in applying to DOAJ @dfg_public We’d love to hear from you!

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  📢 DOAJ Webinar Improving Journal Quality and Visibility though DOAJ Standards 🔹Registration is free, attendees from Nepal and Bangladesh are prioritised 📆 23 March 2026 ⏲️ 2-3pm (IST) Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SUv-U-mzTJG2cSkkr13fww

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  📢We’re heading to #UKSG2026 DOAJ Managing Director Joanna Ball and Head of Community and Communications Katrine Sundsbø will be attending the UKSG 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition. 🗓️March 30-April 1 📌Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow 🔗 https://www.uksg.org/events/conference26/

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  The #DiamondOA momentum continues. This project aims to establish a transparent, sustainable, and high-quality open access scholarly publishing ecosystem in Europe by leveraging and expanding the services of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) https://edch.eu/new-shield-diamond-open-access-europe-launching-aegis-oa-project

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  RE: https://masto.ai/@DOAJ/116252414114699210 ⏰Survey closes April 7 Are you involved in running or supporting a DFG-funded #DiamondOA journal or another Diamond journal in Germany that is not (yet) indexed in DOAJ? In collaboration with @dfg_public we want to understand challenges for 💎 journals applying to #DOAJ https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/

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  ⏰Teilnahme an DOAJ-Umfrage zu Diamond OA noch bis 7. April möglich Liebe Kolleg*innen, ich möchte Sie freundlich daran erinnern, dass die Teilnahme an der DOAJ-Umfrage noch bis zum 7. April möglich ist. Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung! Viele Grüße @dfg_public https://blog.doaj.org/de/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/

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  💎 Diamond Survey 💎 Lyrasis, in partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the California Digital Library have launched a national survey to better understand the US #DiamondOA ecosystem #ScholarlyCommunication #LibraryPublishing 🔗 www.tinyurl.com/mappingdoa